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mae-govannen:

LOTR Tarot: by ~sceithailm

(I will add new ones as they come)

updated May 14th: Justice

Hmm, nice!

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Gun.Smoke (Capcom - arcade - 1985)

motherjones:

NBD GUYS THEY’RE JUST VOTING ON FOOD STAMPS.

The brainchild of Los Angeles architects Kyle and Liz von Hasseln, The Sugar Lab has adapted modern 3D printing technology to produce high-end edible objects for use on wedding cakes or table centerpieces. Recent graduates from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, the pair have developed a printing method that uses a mixture of sugar and alcohol that prints in layers. While the objects seen here are made using regular sugar, they hope to eventually create flavored mixtures that could be used for more complex pastry decorations, typographical treatments, or even functional objects that can later be eaten.

You can read more about the project over on Dezeen, and follow their progress on Facebook.

darkriku5:

My friend was walking and found this Godzilla toy in the Trash so he put a shirt on it, named him John, and then took him out to T.G.I. Fridays and then Dinner was on John. 

	Courtney shared this story from ~(*cute erotic hell*)~:
	This is just about the level of subtlety of the show's actual product placement

werecarrot:

even the dead want in

The toner transfer method of fabricating PCBs is a staple in every maker’s toolbox. Usually, tutorials for this method of making PCBs rely on a clothes iron or laminating machine. They work perfectly well, but with both of these methods (sans high-end laminators), you’re only heating one side of the board at a time, making perfect double-sided PCBs somewhat of a challenge.

[Mark] just came up with an interesting solution to this problem. A waffle iron PCB press. Technically, [Mark] is using his ‘grill and waffle baker’ as a two-sided griddle, with a few aluminum plates sandwiching the copper board for good thermal conduction.

After a whole lot of trial and error, [Mark] eventually got a good transfer onto a piece of copper clad board. Now that he has the process dialed in, it should be a snap to replicate his results with a new project and a new PCB design.

sagansense:

comaniddy:

If you wish to make an Earth Cake from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

This Planetary dessert was used to teach kids about the structure of Earth.

I’m jealous.

Source: Cake Crumbs Via: Geeks Are Sexy

Crumbly but, good - indeed.

weirdvintage: Former NFL player Rosey Grier liked needlepoint.  He wrote a book about it in 1973. (via Dangerous Minds)

At our project kickoff meeting, I asked a client what method of communication he prefers.

Client: Email is the best way to reach me and ensure that I get your message.

I sent him a project update via email two days later. After getting no response after two days, I queried him again via email.

Client: (via email) I get too many emails, so just call me here at the office.

I call him the following week to get his approval on a design and the receptionist screens my call.  I try three more times over the next week, making sure to email with each call. 

On Friday:

Client: Where are my proofs? We’re on a deadline.

Me: I called numerous times, but your receptionist wouldn’t let e speak to you.

Client: Yeah, I told her to screen my calls. Just call me on my mobile.

I call his mobile three times the next week, leaving a message on his (generic) voicemail.

Once again bringing us to Friday:

Client: I just ignore my phone’s voicemail. Call my office or email me.

I begin to do all three, in rotation, over the next week. After failing to reach him, I sent him a certified letter to have him sign off on the final product.

He calls me three days later:

Client: Why are you sending me a letter? It’s 2013 for God’s sake! There are better ways to get a hold of me. 

Aaaaaa this twitter is horrifying aaaaaaa

To all you young artists out there: this sort of thing is likely to come your way at some point!  Don’t be fooled, rare - RARE - is the job where the “exposure” is worth a lack of/very little pay.

tush:

"My wife didn’t appreciate my fridge magnet poem."

Well, I sure did.

You know what seems like a bad idea? Blaring Star Wars' famous "Imperial March" theme from your New York City police car, while patrolling at night. This is probably why the NYPD is less than thrilled that a New York City police car keeps blaring the "Imperial March" during its night patrols.

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A funny thing happened on the way to our supposedly 3D-printed future: A simpler, older, but no less revolutionary technology made its way into every automated factory on earth, and now it’s coming to a garage near you. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s mostly because it has a completely unbankable name—CNC routing (or CNC milling.) Also, unlike the usurper technology 3D printing, which has only lately become popular, CNC milling has been around since MIT pioneered the technology starting in the 1950s.

CNC routing is basically the inverse of 3D printing. Instead of using a computer to control a basic armature and print head that deposits plastic or some other material in three dimensions, CNC routing uses a spinning drill bit to carve wood, metal or plastic. It’s the difference between making a sculpture out of clay and carving it from marble, only there’s a robot doing it instead of a human.

And now CNC milling is becoming as accessible as 3D printing. Shopbot, which has made CNC routers since 1996, has launched a Kickstarter crowd-funding effort to launch its Handibot miniature CNC router.

Here’s the cool thing about Handibot: It’s portable. You can pick it up and press it against any object, or just use it on a workbench no larger than a breakfast table. This means that not only is it about the same size (and price) as the average mid-range 3D printer from Makerbot, but it’s also capable of all kinds of things we can only dream of with 3D printing.

Take materials, the bane of 3D printing—or as it’s known in an industrial context, additive manufacturing. It’s possible to use lasers to 3D print metallic dust into parts that can be used in, for example, rocket engines. But the specialized alloys used in the rest of a rocket engine are not something that can be 3D printed. Nor are we about to 3D print wood, the overwhelming majority of plastics, clay, almost all metals or any number of other useful materials that can be carved with a CNC mill. That’s why most 3D printing is limited to small plastic tchotchkes, while CNC milling is already being used to manufacture millions of car parts, critical pieces of countless machines, and furniture.

ShopBot’s Handibot is robust enough to be used in a machine shop, factory or construction site alongside other power tools, which means it could show up in the hands of your local carpenter—professional or otherwise—just as soon as it’s launched. 3D printing has many applications for which CNC routers are not suitable. But given the existing applications of CNC milling, it’s clear that a home-scale CNC router is, in the short term at least, going to get us much closer to the goal of build-it-anywhere distributed manufacturing of which advocates of 3D printing are so fond.

Ten rural Colorado counties are drawing up plans to secede from Colorado and become a 51st state.

Should the secession plan fail, county commissioners could propose a ballot initiative that would alter the state Senate so that each of Colorado's 64 counties would have its own senator to represent its interests.

“We need to figure out (a) way to re-enfranchise the people who feel politically disenfranchised now and ignored,” Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway told KCNC.

Yeah, nothing re-enfranchises people like giving voters in sparsely populated rural counties substantially more franchise than people in densely populated urban districts. Because democracy!

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